Charles E. Swett
Charles Eben Swett, son of Charles and Anna (Babcock)
Swett, was born March 12, 1839, at Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He commenced his classical education at
Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, New Hampshire, and entered college at the beginning
of the Fall term, August 24, 1860.
Immediately after graduating, he went to Gowanda, Cattaraugus County, New
York, where he became Principal of a large Union School, in September, 1864, and
continued in that position until July, 1865. He was then offered the position of Principal
of Oneida Seminary, Oneida, New York, which he accepted, and remained there for four
years. In 1869 he went to Gloucester, Massachusetts, as Principal of the High School,
and continued his duties there until the Summer of 1873. In the Fall of that year, he
accepted the position of Sub-Master in the Dudley School at Boston, Massachusetts,
remaining there until 1876, when he was transferred to a similar position in the Rice
School, in the same city, where he remained until the close of the year 1877. In January,
1878, he accepted the Principalship of the Grammar School at Winchester,
Massachusetts, which position he occupies at present. In July, 1878, he was elected
Superintendent of the Academical Department of Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, New
York. In September, 1880, he was elected Superintendent of Schools at Malden,
Massachusetts, and in November, 1883, to the Mastership of the Punchard High School,
Andover, Massachusetts, which he declined, preferring to remain at Winchester, where
he is very pleasantly located.
In his religious faith, he is a Congregationalist. In politics, he is a Republican.
He was married August 28, 1866, to Miss Clemantine Keyes, of Westford,
Massachusetts. They have had four children: Charles, born October 23, 1867; Ralph
Keyes, born April 26, 1869 ; Edith Josephine, born March 30, 1873, and Arthur Harold,
born August 17, 1875.
Charles died October 23, 1867.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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